When I saw this dramatic cloud to the north, it reminded me of smoke, rising in billows until it hits the jet stream, then it's pulled hundreds of miles east. I had to capture it quickly. Within minutes the effect had faded.

Aiming to jolt the rest of the world to action, President Barack Obama moved ahead Sunday with even tougher greenhouse gas cuts on American power plants, setting up a certain confrontation in the courts with energy producers and Republican-led states.

Republicans will likely lose Monday's Senate showdown over halting federal aid to Planned Parenthood. Yet the political offensive by abortion foes has just started, prompted by a batch of unsettling videos that has focused attention on the group's little-noticed practice of providing fetal tissue to researchers.

Many Americans assumed the Confederate flag was retired for good after governors in South Carolina and Alabama removed it from their statehouses this summer and presidential candidates from both parties declared it too divisive for official display.

It’s no secret that Seattle’s traffic has gone from bad to atrocious pretty much overnight. I just wanted to take a moment and point out the very obvious solutions that I would like our city to consider.

Life is like a box of chocolates and life is ready to show up at your doorstep. As a new start up Chocolate subscription service (yes, you read that right), Chococurb is ready to ring your doorbell with its own unique brand of luxury chocolates.

As a kid, I had a small 50cc motorcycle. In college, I rode a mountain bike around the WSU campus. But following my college graduation, my story has been mostly based on four wheels through work, wedding, home remodeling and parenting.

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SEATTLE -- If Seattle was awarded a trophy for every heat record we've broken over the past year and a half...we'd have to build a new case. In fact, the "trophy" awarded Friday should probably be among the larger in the display shelf.

The ongoing tensions between the families of the late megastar Whitney Houston and her ex-husband, R&B singer Bobby Brown, erupted Saturday during a memorial service for their daughter, Bobbi Kristina.

Microsoft's new Windows 10 operating system debuts Wednesday, as the longtime leader in PC software struggles to carve out a new role in a world where people increasingly rely on smartphones, tablets and information stored online.

Jody Kearns doesn't like to spend time obsessing about her Parkinson's disease. The 56-year-old dietitian from Syracuse, New York, had to give up bicycling because the disorder affected her balance. But she still works, drives and tries to live a normal life.

Social media giants including Twitter, Yahoo, Facebook and Google are pushing back against Senate legislation that would require them to alert federal authorities of any terrorist activity, according to industry and government officials.

U.S. wages and benefits grew in the spring at the slowest pace in 33 years, stark evidence that stronger hiring isn't lifting paychecks much for most Americans. The slowdown also likely reflects a sharp drop-off in bonus and incentive pay for some workers.

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The inaugural Women’s World Cup, then called the Women’s World Championship, was held in China in 1991. At that tournament, the first ever Women’s World Cup Trophy was awarded to the United States, the stars of the inaugural tournament with an unbeaten record.

Fifty years ago, activists in Alabama called for people to come from the far corners of the country to participate in what would become one of the most significant events in the history of the civil rights movement: a five-day march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery.

There are several legends and tales of lost of buried treasures throughout the state of Washington. None of the treasures have ever been found though, and since word of mouth is the only proof we have that they actually exist, no one knows for sure if the stories are true or just made up.

Winding its way through southern Idaho, the Snake River sidles along a stretch of dark basalt rising above arid farmland. Cold, clear, and full of oxygen, the water is heaven for rainbow trout, and life-giving to some of the world’s largest trout farms.